[Talk-us] Dirt Bike Area

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, James U <jumbanho at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, April 03, 2011 07:45:50 am Mike N wrote:
>> On 4/2/2011 11:37 PM, Val Kartchner wrote:
>> > Within the past few days I discovered an area built up for public use of
>> > pedal dirt bikes.  I have searched but have not found a way to
> designate
>> > such an area.  Has something been created yet?
>>
>>    I couldn't find anything like this.   For a standard dirt paths, it
>> could almost be classified as a park.    But if it has sculpted dips,
>> berms, and woop-dee-doos, it should be called a "pump track" --
>> leisure=pump_track  or bmx_track?
>>
>>
>
> In a similar category are skateboarding parks.  I have labelled them as
> leisure=playground.  In addition to Mike's suggestions, they could also
> probably fall under leisure=pitch, sport=bmx, surface=ground.

Why not highway=track, surface=dirt for the built-up track itself ?